Hard Candy · Vol. 01✦
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Hard
Candy.

An independent AI studio turning ambitious ideas into software that ships and scales. Based in California.

First Edition · 2026Read the manifesto→Irvine, California
The Manifesto

Why technology should never set the ceiling on what gets built.

Technology doesn’t decide what’s possible. Ideas do — and Hard Candy exists to turn the most ambitious ones into systems that work at enterprise scale.

01 · No legacy gravity

Every product starts from what the problem actually demands — not from what an existing stack makes convenient. Old constraints don’t carry forward.

02 · Scale is a design choice

Reliability, security, and enterprise readiness belong in the first sketch. Scale is a property of how something is built, not a sprint that comes later.

03 · Peak innovation, shipped

Frontier ideas don’t get diluted on the way to production. The version that ships is the version that was worth building.

Selected work

A partial index of recent work. Identifying details withheld at client request. AI runs through each one -- accelerating how fast it ships, maintains, and grows, and shaping what the customer actually feels.

Things that ship.

01

Recreational marine · AI-native portfolio

iOS / AndroidAgentic operationsMulti-tenant SaaSMarketplaceFleet management

A suite of interconnected platforms for the recreational boating market. Boat Partner -- the operating system for boat partnerships, enabling sole owners, co-owners, and managers to share, schedule, track usage, manage expenses, and coordinate a shared vessel through a native iOS/Android experience with tiered subscription plans. BRP Agentic Management Platform -- a web portal and agentic operations platform for fleet operators, with partner login, calendar management, financial reporting, document management, and AI-assisted business operations. Share Your Boat -- a consumer marketplace for discovering, listing, and transacting boat partnership opportunities.

Shipped
02

No6 · Personal & Business AI Agent

Relationship matrixPer-person memoryGroup chat awareCalendar + contactsBuilds + publishes pages48-hour install

A different relationship with every person in your life — separate voice, permissions, and isolated memory per contact, enforced in code. Lives in your family group chat without intruding; only speaks when addressed. Manages Google and Outlook calendars, reads and writes both, and works from your full contact graph. Schedules actions that actually execute at a future time, not just reminders. Reads photos and voice notes, drafts and sends email across multiple identities, and learns standing policies once — delete this sender, flag anything from that person — that run on every message forever. iMessage, SMS, Telegram, email, and voice. One principal per instance. 48-hour deployment.

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03

AI-native behavioral health

HIPAAReal-time voice AIAI session captureClinician workspace

A patient-facing AI companion and clinician-side workspace for mental health practice. Real-time AI voice conversations carry the session; structured AI capture turns spoken words into a reviewable record; AI-assisted case review shows clinicians what mattered. Built on HIPAA-compliant infrastructure with PHI handling end to end.

Clinical ReleaseConsumer Release
04

Rover · Agent knowledge management

Bidirectional syncAI agent accessStructured schemaMulti-session AIKnowledge graph

A custom Obsidian vault architecture with bidirectional sync, structured frontmatter schema, and an integrated AI agent access layer that enables autonomous agents to read, write, search, and reason over a live personal knowledge base -- bridging human note-taking with machine-readable context for persistent, multi-session AI workflows.

Shipped
05

Agentic project management · Trello + Slack

Trello integrationSlack integrationAutonomous task managementAgentic workflows

An AI agent integrating Trello and Slack to autonomously manage software development workflows -- creating, updating, and triaging tasks based on team communication patterns; surfacing blockers before they become critical; and maintaining synchronized project state across distributed, asynchronous teams without manual coordination overhead.

Shipped
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